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Conditions
Interventions
Alle Leerlingen Actief! (ALA), developed by the Dutch Institute for Sport and Physical Activity (NISB), is a
school-based intervention to motivate inactive students to become physically active, with m
after this period the waiting-list-control schools will be allowed to start with the intervention. Twenty schools will be recruited from the total sample of secondary schools in The Netherlands. The c
Sponsors
TNO Kwaliteit van Leven
Preventie en Zorg
Postbus 2215
2301 CE Leiden
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Schools will be included in the study if: 1. They are willing to appoint a contact person for the duration of the trial; 2. They are willing to train two or more teachers, for example a physical education teacher and a tutor, to use the study protocol (motivational interviewing techniques and/ or measurement protocol); 3. They agree that only teachers that have successfully completed the training organized for this study are allowed to use the motivational interviewing techniques; 4. They are willing to reserve time and space for the interviewing/ counseling sessions when allocated to the intervention group; 5. They are able to enroll 25 students in the study (see also sample size calculations); 6. They are willing not to start ALA during the study period (i.e., one school year) when allocated to the control group. ALA is an intervention for inactive students. For students in the intervention group, a questionnaire and physical measurements will also be used to assess which individual students might be suitable candidates for enrollment in the ALA program. The following students will be offered MI sessions: 1. They are insufficiently physically active as reported in the questionnaire (i.e., less than 5 days per week 60 minutes of physical activity of at least moderate intensity); 2. They are willing to participate in interviewing/ counseling sessions. When the demand for interviewing/ counseling sessions is higher than the supply offered by the school, priority will be given to the least physically active students, students who are overweight and/ or students with low motor skills as displayed in the intra-curricular physical educations classes as identified by the physical education teacher.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: See inclusion criteria.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The main utcomes that will be assessed among the students include: Physical activity behaviour (i.e., number of days per week engaged in 60 minutes of at least moderate intensity physical activity) and the intrinsic motivation towards sports and physical activity. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Outcomes that will be assessed among the teachers include: The frequency, duration and setting of the counselling sessions with the students and the students’ stage of change toward sports and physical activity as noted by the teacher in each counselling session. Outcomes that will be assessed at the school level include: The school policy on physical activity and sports, and the social and physical environment in and around school. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactR.W. Bisseling
Postbus 64
Outcome results
None listed